In the last blog entry I detailed the story of Zahra Aboutalib, a Moroccan woman with a rare complication of an ectopic pregnancy, a lithopedion. The second incredibly rare complication of an ectopic pregnancy that I will cover happened to an English woman named Jane Ingram. Jane was a 32 year old woman living in […]

Last night The Learning Channel replayed a program that I originally saw about a year ago entitled “Extraordinary Pregnancies.” It told the story of two women and their ‘extraordinary pregnancies’: Zahra in Morocco and Jane in England. The program is the repackaging of two other British programs that aired several years ago. Both women experienced […]

Having had an oophorectomy, I am incredibly interested in the surgical removal of ovaries. Removal of one ovary is called a unilateral oophorectomy; removal of both is bilateral. Usually, when an ovary is removed, the fallopian tube associated with it is also removed. This is called a salpingo-oophorectomy. My interest usually lies in new surgical […]

While there are a myriad of possible gynecological surgeries, which ones do women elect to have performed? In the past tubal ligation and varying degrees of hysterectomy have been the most popular elective gynecological surgeries. In the 1990s, though, elective c-sections began to boom. Recently, however, a growing movement has developed in backlash to the […]